DAVAO City-- The number of fi re incidents in Region 11 has climbed to 188 in January to May this year from 169 in the same period in 2011, said Fire Insp. Nestor Jimenez of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP).

BUTUAN CITY- Department of Agrarian Reform Caraga regional office since its creation as a regional office here has already distributed a total of 235,752 hectares benefiting 112,292 farmers with accomplishment rate of 90% much higher than the national accomplishment rate in terms of land acquisition and distribution of only 54.6%.

PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III is scheduled to meet with local executives of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm) in Davao City today in a bid to get the region and its local government units on tract of national development agenda.

IN a bid to improve its health services, the city government of General Santos plans to establish by next year a P50-million building
complex that will house various offices of the City Integrated Health Services Offices (CIHSO).

A RECENT intensification of attacks on Baha'i-owned businesses in Iran further demonstrates the Iranian authorities' determination
to suffocate the economic prospects of the Baha'is of that country, solely on account of their religious beliefs.